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EDUCATION

Juris Doctor from the University of North Carolina School of Law (1978)

Bachelor of Arts and Laws from the University of North Carolina (1976)

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EAD COUNSEL IN MORE THAN 500 APPEALS

Sidney Powell, a former partner in a large regional firm, established her firm, dedicated to federal appellate practice, in 1993. She is now practicing in the Second, Fourth, Fifth, Ninth, Tenth, and Eleventh Federal Circuits, and the United States Supreme Court. Ms. Powell also consults in federal appeals and litigation involving complex class actions and selected “white-collar” defendants, including the $3 billion national class action against Fibreboard Corporation; real estate transactions, employment law, asbestos injuries, environmental issues, oil and gas matters, contract claims, patent, trademark, copyright, attorney sanctions, civil rights actions, and a wide variety of civil issues. She has also represented judges, lawyers, and a prominent Merril Lynch executive in the Enron litigation. Sidney Powell has served as lead counsel in more than 500 appeals in the Fifth Circuit, which have resulted in more than 180 published opinions. Ms. Powell is an elected member of the American Law Institute and a Fellow of the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers for which she served in 2001-2002 as President. She is also a past president of the Bar Association of the Fifth Federal Circuit.

From 1978 through 1988, Sidney Powell served as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Western and Northern Districts of Texas and the Eastern District of Virginia, where she did criminal trial work, civil trial work, and was Appellate Section Chief for the Western and then the Northern District of Texas. She represented the United States in approximately 350 of her 500 appeals. In Western Texas, Ms. Powell was one of the prosecutors in the trial of Jimmy Chagra for continuing criminal enterprise violations. In the Eastern District at Virginia, she was successful in obtaining a conviction against a local attorney for bankruptcy fraud.

EDUCATION

Juris Doctor from the University of North Carolina School of Law; Chapel Hill, North Carolina.